If each of those 200,000 subscribers paid $100, the number is accurate, and they stay away, that amounts to $20m. Or, to Bezos, a rounding error - and cost of doing business.
This is actually pretty close to true, but it’s dishonest in a different way.
This is why it’s dishonest.
Egg prices spiked by 28.1% in August from 12 months ago, easily the biggest increase out of any food item tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The sticker shock in the egg aisle comes even as overall grocery prices are barely budging (up less than 1% in August from last year) and inflation cools across the US economy.
The cause is primarily bird flu.
The “pro-Trump” NY Times has this to say as their closing argument on the presidential election:
VOTE TO END THE TRUMP ERA
You already know Donald Trump. He is unfit to lead. Watch him. Listen to those who know him best. He tried to subvert an election and remains a threat to democracy. He helped overturn Roe, with terrible consequences. Mr. Trump’s corruption and lawlessness go beyond elections: It’s his whole ethos. He lies without limit. If he’s re-elected, the G.O.P. won’t restrain him. Mr. Trump will use the government to go after opponents. He will pursue a cruel policy of mass deportations. He will wreak havoc on the poor, the middle class and employers. Another Trump term will damage the climate, shatter alliances and strengthen autocrats. Americans should demand better. Vote.
No one doubts that the NYT has endorsed Harris and is against trump. But their constant niggling attacks on Biden, then Harris, mostly for failing to give an exclusive interview, made they appear to be secretly pro-trump.
To some it did appear that way, yes.
Trump isn’t an ordinary man. He’s far, far worse.
And the owner has now predictably gone mask-off.
The mainstream media in this country needs to be held responsible for putting their thumbs on the scale for Trump.
Huh? Link goes nowhere, is this just a picture- of what?
It’s a screenshot of a tweet. Here, I’ll do it this way;
Screencap of X retweet (by EM, of course) of a post by LAT owner Pat Soon Shiong praising the Donald and Mr. Brainworm for “an inspired decision” in choosing the appointees to FDA, CMS and CDC and for the vision of transforming the system “from sick care to true health care” and ending an “era of dogma, group think”.
Drat, seconds too late.
Not an expression you hear much anymore. Also Charlie Brown’s favourite, “Rats.”
Paul Krugman, an economist who has been very negative about Trump’s policies, has just “retired” as a columnist at the New York Times. While it could well be voluntary because of age or health concerns (he is 71) or he has more desirable things to do (a new book…) or it could be forced because he no longer appeals to the younger demographic… the possibility exists he was dumped for his anti-Trump beliefs. Thoughts?
Krugman’s post on Bluesky states “I decided to leave in search of more freedom in terms of both style and content” and it does not appear he’s going to burn any bridges by going any further than that.
It doesn’t sound like he was retired by the Times, at any rate, and it is entirely plausible it was both voluntary and for the reasons he stated, i.e. the Times is no longer a great place for him to write columns.
I doubt it was anything nefarious. I wonder who will replace him? He was easily by favorite opinion writer, made me smarter.
I’m sad to hear this. He is one of my favorite columnists, and is easily the most knowledgeable columnists on economics that I read.
Agree. Even got that Nobel.
I love Krugman, and I write that with an economics undergrad degree and having worked tangentially in investment banking for close to a decade in the 1990’s.
That said, I will concede that the NY Times editorial board has gone down the path of false equivalency and whataboutism vs calling bullshit. Krugman called bullshit. Fingers crossed his voice remains represented in the NYTimes OpEd pages
Probably this. I hate to see him go. As soon as anyone discovers where we can read him regularly again, please tell.
He said he’ll probably post future plans tomorrow morning